Scott Brown: GOP needs to be more tolerant

11/13/12 5:56 PM EST

Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) isn’t ready to talk about his political future just yet.

Brown declined to speculate to reporters Tuesday about whether he’d make another run for the Senate if President Barack Obama names Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to his cabinet.

“It is speculation. There’s no vacancy that I’m aware of,” Brown told reporters in a brief press conference in the U.S. Capitol.

He also deflected a question on whether he’d run for governor in 2014.

“I have a job to do right now and there is not an opening right now for governor, nor is there an opening for senator,” he said. “But there is an opening for a dad and a husband and that’s the role that I want to play.”

Brown said Kerry would make an “excellent” secretary of state. Kerry has also been rumored as a potential pick for Defense secretary as well.

The Massachusetts Republican lost last week to Democrat Elizabeth Warren.

“Life doesn’t end when you lose an election,” Brown said. “I want to end it how I started it: 100 percent. It’s how I do everything.”

Brown lamented the continuing decline of Republican moderates.

“We need to be a larger tent party,” he said. “I’m a pro-choice, moderate Republican. There’s a vanishing breed here, we know that now.”

“I’m hopeful we’ll be a more tolerant, open-minded party,” he added. “I plan to continue to play a role of some sort but I don’t know what yet, but I know I’ve been very happy to be here.”

He cited other moderate senators in both parties that are leaving Congress as well – a list that includes Democrats Joe Lieberman and Kent Conrad and Republicans Richard Lugar and Olympia Snowe.